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‘Freddie Mercury was great but dressing Zsa Zsa Gabor was terrible’

Interactive Born in Chatham, Kent in 1940, Zandra Rhodes is a fashion and textile designer and founder of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Known for her bold and unconventional use of colour and prints, Rhodes has dressed the most famous members of the royal family and popular culture, from Princess Diana to Debbie… Read More »

‘You wiped the floor with me!’ Tamsin Greig and Oliver Chris run riot with Rattigan

On May 8, 1956, Terence Rattigan stood outside the Royal Court theater in London after the opening night of a revolutionary new drama. This was not one of his own plays, but a sally from a new generation: John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. Or, as the veteran playwright bitterly renames it: Look How Different… Read More »